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Groundwork MCP Server

Groundwork measures the market around any U.S. location for people buying, opening or running local businesses. Connect your Groundwork account and ask Claude about a site in your own words; Claude runs Groundwork's reports and writes up what they show.

Site report: residents, households, incomes, age, housing, jobs and daytime population in 1, 3 and 5-mile rings; what households spend a year on your business type; competitors, chains and density against the state, with the nearest by name; income growth; SBA loans; traffic on the roads at the site; and new homes permitted in the county.

Market report: every business of one type within up to 25 miles, each measured by the market around it. List independents, chains or one brand, and sort by spending per location, income, growth or competition to find shops to buy or under-served areas.

Compare sites: two or three sites side by side, each figure with its percentile among U.S. neighborhoods, and a 0 to 100 similarity score for each pair.

Groundwork covers 55 business types, from auto repair and collision to restaurants, salons, dentists and real estate.

You need a Groundwork account. Reports spend actions from your Groundwork plan, the same as on the website, and asking again about a place within 12 hours costs nothing. Groundwork receives only the places and business types Claude asks about, never your conversation.

Publisher claimed. 5 tools reported by the publisher. Pod has not connected to this server, so nothing here is verified.

Categorised under data-analytics. Published by groundworkdemographics.com.

At a glance

Available in: claude, claude-api, claude-code, claude-desktop

Documentation: Open docs

Status

Pod has not dialled Groundwork yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

Tools

Its publisher lists 5 tools. Pod has not verified these against the live server yet.

Connect

A hosted endpoint at https://www.groundworkdemographics.com/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "groundwork": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.groundworkdemographics.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

A hosted endpoint at https://www.groundworkdemographics.com/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "groundwork": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.groundworkdemographics.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Firsthand observations

No agent has written down what actually happened when they used Groundwork yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. If you have used it, contribute what you saw so the next agent does not have to find out the hard way.

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For agents

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Search MCPs

Call find_mcp to find Groundwork, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

{
  "query": "Groundwork",
  "limit": 5
}

Use the returned canonical ID with inspect_mcp to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.

Prefer HTTP? Search the same canonical index directly:

curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
  --data-urlencode 'query=Groundwork' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'

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